Sam Harris on Divine Commands: Part I
In a previous post, Divine Commands and Pyschopathic Tendancies, I said I would look in more detail at Sam Harris’ charge that Divine Command Theories (“DCT”) of meta-ethics are psychopathic. In this,...
View ArticleIs a Divine Command Theory Pscyopathic? Sam Harris on Divine Commands: Part II
In my last post, Sam Harris on Divine Commands: Part I, I criticised Sam Harris’ characterisation of divine command meta-ethics. In this post I want to turn to his second line of criticism of a Divine...
View ArticleIs a Divine Command Theory Psychotic? Sam Harris on Divine Commands Part III
In Sam Harris on Divine Commands Part I I criticised Harris’ characterisation of divine command meta-ethics. I refuted Harris’ contention a divine command theory is pscyopathic in Is a Divine Command...
View ArticleOn alleged Victim’s of Church abuse…“Can you blame them?”…. “Yes I can”
Can you blame them? This was the rhetorical question I heard recently, posed by a speaker at a Conference of religious studies teachers that I attended. The answer to the question was supposed to be...
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